{"id":111669,"date":"2020-08-20T05:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/new-study-says-honey-is-better-for-colds-than-drugs-heres-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:26:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:26:43","slug":"new-study-says-honey-is-better-for-colds-than-drugs-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/new-study-says-honey-is-better-for-colds-than-drugs-heres-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"New Study Says Honey Is Better For Colds Than Drugs. Here\u2019s What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-says-honey-is-better-for-colds-than-drugs-heres-what-you-need-to-know2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honey appears to be a preferable treatment for cough or cold symptoms rather than antibiotics and over-the-counter medicines, according to a new systematic review that\u2019s looked at the results from 14 previous studies \u2014 but the conclusions may not be quite so clear-cut as they appear at first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoney is a frequently used lay remedy that is well known to patients,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ebm.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2020\/07\/28\/bmjebm-2020-111336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">write the researchers<\/a> from the University of Oxford in the UK. \u201cIt is also cheap, easy to access and has limited harms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One particular area of interest is the comparison of honey to antibiotics. With antibiotics often causing side effects and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-traced-back-the-history-of-antibiotics-and-antibiotic-resistance-millions-of-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">antibiotic resistance<\/a> on the rise, there are multiple advantages to using honey as an alternative remedy, the authors of the review point out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honey appears to be a preferable treatment for cough or cold symptoms rather than antibiotics and over-the-counter medicines, according to a new systematic review that\u2019s looked at the results from 14 previous studies \u2014 but the conclusions may not be quite so clear-cut as they appear at first. \u201cHoney is a frequently used lay remedy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}